The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-07-09
VOL. II. NO. 7.
LIMNINGS.

MT. Blaine, while in England, can not hope to rival Buffalo Bill. "He makes very fair speech" the queen remarked, "but then his riding is said to be awkward"
 An enterprising firm in Chicago has issued the following advertisement: "Having secured large number of confederate battle- flags, we are now prepared to sell these interesting relics at greatly reduced rates"
 Ingersolps tribute to Beecher can add nothing to the greatness of the preacher, but it shows that the infidel has broad and charitable mind, as we'll as wit that whittles off fine shavings and humor which, like boiling spring, may throw up sand, but which also throws up beautiful water. Very few preachers, even though warned against speaking evil of any man, have kind word to say of Ingersoll, although many of his ut terances are as noble and soul-stirring as any that have ever come from the pulpit.
 The London Pall Mall Gazette dis tinguished Henry James as the "typi- cal American writer" whereupon the St. Louis Magazine denies that James is an American writer, adding that .if the American author or American manhood, are to be judged abroad through the pages of Henry James, they must indeed-in England-have very contemptible opinion of two great factors in our American civiliza- tion." AS novelist MT. James is dying. American readers cannot for get it took him two hours to tell how Mrs. Daintry came down the front steps. Now, it was perfectly right that Mrs. Daintry should come down the steps if she had business in the street, but MT. James had no right to grind out novel solely on that thrill ing incident.
 Ticknor & Co.,, of Boston, have in press a volume of poems and sketches by Eugene Field, of the Chicago NeWs. Such volume is anXiously awaited by thousands of people who justly admire MT. Field, whose sketches are among the best produced in this country, and whose poems, many of them, written upon events that were still fresh enough to be photographic news," have never been surpassed by any American journalist. It is easy enough to write a poem for school hu% fo fa nttr rent topic-write it while the forms are closing and throw into it such rhythmic skill, such brightness of thought and such newness of treat ment that it is worthy of place iii a book of standard verse, is performance beyond any hand that does not pos sess that literary cunning which critics call genius.
 Extract from the London Tele- graph: "It is amusing what absurd statements our contemporaries have made with regard to Buffalo Bill. This distinguished parsonage, we learn from trustworthy source, was at one time a planter in Cleveland, Ohio, where during many years he raised bananas and a peculiar sort of fruit which the Americans call squash. Af- ter selling out his farm in Cleveland, he went farther east to St. Louis, where he began the somewhat danger ous business of bear trapping. His first exploit of any moment was his fight with General Custer, whom he mortally wounded. He was, after this, in the wholesale jewelry busi- ness with Hon. Jesse James, governor of Missouri. But he never gave promise of greatness until after he went into the war between Kentucky and Mexico. He commanded the right wing of the Kentuckians and received Santa Anna's sword at Shiloh. A de- tailed history of his life might make an interesting book, especially bis ad-